Would you save the man-eating monsters? (Poll)

[minacia]

So your party defeated the Demon Lord and humanity won the war against monsters.​

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The human alliance hates demons and now wants to order a mass genocide of demons, specifically man-eating monsters.​

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As the hero, you have a certain amount of influence, and your opinion is respected.​

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However, it is hard to argue why all the man-eating monsters shouldn't be killed. Man-eating monsters are exclusive carnivores, and they can only eat human flesh. Every man-eating monster has to eat approximately one human per week, and they have a world population of around 500,000. Mathematically, this comes out to about 26 million humans eaten every year.​

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Therefore, it is impossible to feed the man-eating demons with criminals, prisoners, or death-row convicts (there simply aren't enough).​

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Aside from the fact that man-eating monsters eat humans, they are otherwise extremely nice, polite, sympathetic, and intelligent. They are also very physically attractive (according to human tastes), and they were way friendlier than other demon species. During your isekai adventure, you befriended a number of man-eating demons as your allies, and they currently beg you to save their species...​

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...Or at least stop the genocide...​

1. What would you do?

2. If you were a man-eating demon, what would you suggest to the humans?

3. What if you also knew that human society was also corrupt (i.e. nobles abusing peasants)?

4. Suppose that the humans are also looking to enslave the remaining demons. How would you react?

 

[CrusadeAgainstFurries]

I would eat the man-eating demons. Someone wanna join?

 

[The_Long_Serpent]

An intriguing concept, and one without a good answer.

 

[FDSIO]

You can't do much... Outside of protecting your hot waifus umu, umu.

You purposely made the setting such as there's no reasonable solution to the extent that it doesn't even make much sense.

A race that eats you can't coexist peacefully with you. When was the last time you thought about a cow or a pig as your equal? No, that's food. I doubt that that cow wants to be eaten by you but you still do it despite eating the cow not being really necessary. You can eat something else.

Now, imagine a race that can't eat anything else than you... They're going to be your friendly neighbors, right?

 

[The_Long_Serpent]

You can't do much... Outside of protecting your hot waifus umu, umu.

You purposely made the setting such as there's no reasonable solution to the extent that it doesn't even make much sense.

A race that eats you can't coexist peacefully with you. When was the last time you thought about a cow or a pig as your equal? No, that's food. I doubt that that cow wants to be eaten by you but you still do it despite eating the cow not being really necessary. You can eat something else.

Now, imagine a race that can't eat anything else than you... They're going to be your friendly neighbors, right?

some of these people probably have a demon waifu of their own.

 

[GDLiZy]

This is clear cut enough. Kill them all.

If I'm a human-eating demon, I wouldn't trust any human anyway.

 

[GoodPuppiWaffles]

Simply kill all of the demons, or find something else to eat. That's the legal answer.

 

[AdLeto]

They can cut limbs off criminals and make healers grow them back, making some sort of human flesh farm

 

[The_Long_Serpent]

They can cut limbs off criminals and make healers grow them back, making some sort of human flesh farm

THAT'S GENIUS

 

[Xobotun]

Sorry for formatting and weak cohesion between sentences, writing from a mobile. [Obligatory disclaimer]

Answer №1:
I call bullshit. There is no way this situation would have occured naturally:

• How did these demons grew up to eating only human flesh? By magic? Have magic solve this situation. Artificial human meet or something.

• How long did they feed up on humans before the war? If for too long, how did humanity not go extinct? If not too long, there'd be a kind of borderline between the races, and the man-eating demons would have naturally starved if they were living too far away from the villages/cities. I guess, this caused the war.

• If these demons are superior to human, how did the human won? If by sheer numbers, the demons could have gone into guerrilla warfare or could have occupied an untakeable natural fortress. What? They are more intelligent than human, they should have done that.

If the humans attacked them with a strategical magic, attack them beforehand with a stronger one! If you are starving inside the fortress, send out provisional commando squads at night to the rear lands.

• How many are there other kinds of demons and what are they? What are their numbers and characters? Surely the humans has won?

Answer №2:
So the humanity has won. But the demons are too beautiful and clever. And can interbreed with humans.

Some of the nobles and royalty would oppose that, but others would take the demons as their wives/husbands to strenghten their bloodlines and here have a common trope that the nobles/royalty have better magic, better looks, clearer heads. And like to drink human blood, as our goverments do, he-he.

And several generations later some unknown Baron house rises to Ducal heights due to their abilities. Lower ranking nobles would definitely try their luck at it, even if it would be forbidden.

As for the demons who were not that lucky, they interbreed with commoners too, and probably starve off, content with leaving offsprings in the cruel world. Others would go into banditry. Some would go into prostitution and will spend earned money in the new kind of black market selling human flesh or dishes cooked with it.

But the population would definitely drop far below 500k.

Answer №3:
Having troubles with food? Grow more!

Have the alliance create large human farms where anyone can go and fuck to their content! Make this obligatory to do once a year too.
More orgies! More demon MILFs raising dozens of children (not necessarily theirs) to be eaten a few years later!

Make path for the grim-dark-ero novel!

Answer №4:
Cannot they just drink blood? Or cut death-row prisoners into minces and heal them back to life...

P. S. By the way, have you tried asking on worldbuilding.stackexchange.com? There's a community that'll generate more and better ideas than here, I think.
P. P. S. But I only read there, here I post too. :3

 

[Leti]

I would eat the man-eating demons. Someone wanna join?

I will bring the sauce. And drinks.

 

[CrusadeAgainstFurries]

I will bring the sauce. And drinks.

Great! I will bring tha gurls!

 

[Vaxel00]

Ok ok, hear me out.

I overthrow the government and become king with my demon friends, after that I create a special reservation of the demon survivors (which will probably be mostly women and children).

To cut public spending I get rid of all prisons and just give the criminals (and my political opponents) to the demons all sauteed and grilled.

After that, thanks to crossbreeding the next generations of demons are more flexible with their diet and thanks to that they're able to integrate into human society.

 

[Toomanysorrows]

1. What would you do?
Yeah kill them. I'm not happy to say that, but it's the only long term solution. Breeding humans is unethical, I oppose the death penalty pretty much always so that's not a solution, you can maybe try to get a cultural ideal running of humans sacrificing themselves but aside from the logistics expecting people to get themselves eating and exerting social pressure over it isn't ethical either. So the only result here can be constant conflict for food/survival and at that point it's better to get it out of the way in one swoop so that everyone else gets to live without this moral and existential burden in the future.

2. If you were a man-eating demon, what would you suggest to the humans?
Unless the population of demons is very small or they don't require a lot of feeding there is no good logistical solution to this beyond hunting humans when needed tbh.

3. What if you also knew that human society was also corrupt (i.e. nobles abusing peasants)?
Listen I'm all for revolution but the Romanov family can probably only feed a few demons for a few months at most. And even in a lot of revolutions, ethically, a lot of the ruling class don't deserve death. So it basically has no bearing on this situation either ethically or logistically.

4. Suppose that the humans are also looking to enslave the remaining demons. How would you react?
Not good. First of, you haven't solved the ethical/logistical problem of feeding yet. Second of all, slavery is also always unethical so you're just making the situation worse.

So tldr: ethically there's no way of feeding these demons and the lesser of two evils is wiping them out immediately imo; logistically, unless these demons have very low needs of food (both in terms of what they need in a single meal and how many meals they need) and very low birth rates/very high death rates it's going to be hard to set up any logistical system for feeding that doesn't undermine human society as well, except maybe if you structure it around that feeding in numerous ways (very quick penalties for petty crimes, cultural expectation of becoming a meal, very little healthcare to provide more dead, etc etc) which just leads to other ethical issues.

 

[minacia]

• How did these demons grew up to eating only human flesh? By magic? Have magic solve this situation. Artificial human meet or something.

There are a lot of fantasy settings where there are demons that only eat humans.

In many of these circumstances, demons don't reproduce from ordinary means.

• How long did they feed up on humans before the war? If for too long, how did humanity not go extinct? If not too long, there'd be a kind of borderline between the races, and the man-eating demons would have naturally starved if they were living too far away from the villages/cities. I guess, this caused the war.

Oh, they hunted humans. Like before the world, there would be tons of humans who would go randomly missing at night. But humans are generally pretty fertile and in this world the average human family has 5-6 kids.

The demons used to be everywhere, but recently (ish) there was a demon king who made a demon empire where they caught humans and bred them in farms for food.

• If these demons are superior to human, how did the human won? If by sheer numbers, the demons could have gone into guerrilla warfare or could have occupied an untakeable natural fortress. What? They are more intelligent than human, they should have done that.

Magic sort of makes things unpredictable, and the hero is too OP.

• How many are there other kinds of demons and what are they? What are their numbers and characters? Surely the humans has won?

All the generic demon species, such as orcs, goblins, trolls...

Cannot they just drink blood? Or cut death-row prisoners into minces and heal them back to life...

No, if they could survive off of blood they would just be vampires.

There are many other flesh-eating species of demons.

P. S. By the way, have you tried asking on worldbuilding.stackexchange.com? There's a community that'll generate more and better ideas than here, I think.

I'll glimpsed there but these polls are mostly for fun! There's no real purpose to them.

 

[minacia]

Now, imagine a race that can't eat anything else than you... They're going to be your friendly neighbors, right?

It's more like they are naturally attractive/friendly/sociable (by human standards) to deceive humans.

...Kind of how vampires are stereotypically extremely attractive because it makes them easier to attract their prey.

So these man-eating demons are definitely very pretty/sexy/attractive so they can lure humans to secluded places where they can be killed for food while hunting.

 

[Reborn_Cat]

Can they eat chimps instead? (chimps are 99% similar to humans)
Else investing in a homunculus farm(They have no will or conscience, they are only bags of flesh)

 

[Undeadd]

1.
Hmmm... I sincerely see no easy solution, why do these individuals eat only human meat and can't eat anything else, this makes it hard to say wether producing "artificial" human meat is a viable alternative (lab cultives of human cells to produce enough meat), is there healing magic? If so how advanced is healing magic and how does healing work in there? Depending on this you can just use healing magic after you remove a criminal's limbs to make the criminal get their limbs back, meaning you get a stable source of human meat
Beyond that is the morals of the man eating demons, what do they believe is right, what do they believe is wrong, depending on this leaving them alive might cause another war
2.
If I was a man eating demon I'd propose either of the two methods I mentioned on the 1st question, going into hiding and hunting people is also an option
3.
Human society was always corrupt so I see not how would this question affect my choices
4.
Call them idiots, thinking of enslaving while still not knowing how to feed them... I'd likely try to stop them from committing stupid tho

 

[CupcakeNinja]

So your party defeated the Demon Lord and humanity won the war against monsters.​

​

The human alliance hates demons and now wants to order a mass genocide of demons, specifically man-eating monsters.​

​

As the hero, you have a certain amount of influence, and your opinion is respected.​

​

However, it is hard to argue why all the man-eating monsters shouldn't be killed. Man-eating monsters are exclusive carnivores, and they can only eat human flesh. Every man-eating monster has to eat approximately one human per week, and they have a world population of around 500,000. Mathematically, this comes out to about 26 million humans eaten every year.​

​

Therefore, it is impossible to feed the man-eating demons with criminals, prisoners, or death-row convicts (there simply aren't enough).​

​

Aside from the fact that man-eating monsters eat humans, they are otherwise extremely nice, polite, sympathetic, and intelligent. They are also very physically attractive (according to human tastes), and they were way friendlier than other demon species. During your isekai adventure, you befriended a number of man-eating demons as your allies, and they currently beg you to save their species...​

​

...Or at least stop the genocide...​

1. What would you do?

2. If you were a man-eating demon, what would you suggest to the humans?

3. What if you also knew that human society was also corrupt (i.e. nobles abusing peasants)?

4. Suppose that the humans are also looking to enslave the remaining demons. How would you react?

KIll them down to a couple hundred, maybe less, and treat them as sex slaves. We can keep them fed on criminals. Thieves, murderers. At the number we've dwindled them to, they are sustainable this way.

 

[ThrillingHuman]

So your party defeated the Demon Lord and humanity won the war against monsters.​

​

The human alliance hates demons and now wants to order a mass genocide of demons, specifically man-eating monsters.​

​

As the hero, you have a certain amount of influence, and your opinion is respected.​

​

However, it is hard to argue why all the man-eating monsters shouldn't be killed. Man-eating monsters are exclusive carnivores, and they can only eat human flesh. Every man-eating monster has to eat approximately one human per week, and they have a world population of around 500,000. Mathematically, this comes out to about 26 million humans eaten every year.​

​

Therefore, it is impossible to feed the man-eating demons with criminals, prisoners, or death-row convicts (there simply aren't enough).​

​

Aside from the fact that man-eating monsters eat humans, they are otherwise extremely nice, polite, sympathetic, and intelligent. They are also very physically attractive (according to human tastes), and they were way friendlier than other demon species. During your isekai adventure, you befriended a number of man-eating demons as your allies, and they currently beg you to save their species...​

​

...Or at least stop the genocide...​

1. What would you do?

2. If you were a man-eating demon, what would you suggest to the humans?

3. What if you also knew that human society was also corrupt (i.e. nobles abusing peasants)?

4. Suppose that the humans are also looking to enslave the remaining demons. How would you react?

Considering my misanthropic tendencies, it would be more likely for me to betray humanity and join the Demon Lord's army from the start than to actually go on to fight against demons, but for the sake of experiment, sure, let's go with your scenario.
Stopping the genocide would be impossible at this point, unless the military might of humanity at this point would be not great enough to continue fighting (if the "hero party" assistance be excluded), which, frankly, would be unlikely as no sane person would try to go battle an entire species to extinction when they themselves didn't have enough power to stand on their own.
Though, depending on geographics, 500000 is not that many, so maybe it would work, but then a single person's words would not be enough to stop the entire world's human population from carrying out small-scale hunts, especially when it comes to the fact that the species in question literally would eat them otherwise.
We assume that all those demons live close or in the human habitats of medium to large scale for the most part, since they need to eat humans to survive, and we can't move them to a safer place, since they need humans to survive,tactical retreat is out of the question.
The demons don't have nukes or large scale forbidden magics or anything of the sort, since they wouldn't need saving otherwise and they would just threaten humanity with an ultimatum in that case.
Assuming that I can't go against humanity on my own (cause wtf wouldn't I in that case?), I will not be able to use force to lower humanity's military might to an appropriate degree personally, which would lead me to another solution - hiding small groups of the human-eating demons and disguising them as humans and supporting them from the shadows somehow.
I really can't come up with a better solution for now

Edit: we could ask for assistance from other demon tribes and create a anti-human coalition, though the feasibility of this option is not very high, I would imagine as reorganisation of a ruined army seems pretty tough when a war is just about the corner and you are a famed war criminal for the side you are trying to band together (why did I even go against demons in the first place again?)